After far far too long I have made a return to Avorion and despite intending on writing this ship off to the abyss I just couldn't do it.

As such I have slightly resized the ship, merged cargo and rebuilt the main cargo hold in the centre.

This required more core power for the ship to be sustainable so the front armor plate has solar panels behind it.

This cost a small amount of cargo space but the armor thickness from the original design has been maintained.

The TI variant should not suffer these issues thanks to the benefit of power generators.

any news on how to fix the cargo problem ? (merging all the block give 0.4 cargo capacity XD

btw very nice ship

I had the same thing happen. I guess they finally fixed the exploit lol. I had incorporated it into all my ships and needless to say I was surprised to see that all my shhips had no cargo space. I guess it's back to the drawing board unless there is a workaround.

Thanks man I finally got the cargo working slowling merging it together bit by bit till it was one solid piece and I saved that lol.

No I do not think you did anything wrong - they finally fixed it :)

I will get this fixed ASAP Spoony.

Ok so i love the look of the ship but for some reason when i spawn it the cargo holds are all tiny blocks not merged and refuseto merge together and the ship has no cargo space. Maybe I did something wrong but I wish I could get this to work.

VERY NICE, i like that your ships always look nice but aren't overly complicated

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/2431257256122735439/655A1D0428ACC724CCA43A56855F49A7CAC89654/

Sneak peak ...

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/2431257256122717022/E504E2699501096C5091C263D463F767FE26FE68/

you can scale mine a few times i actually was surprised as hell to see how much viability it holds by doing a 1.5x scale or 2x scale and upgrading materials ... i found that once you got to the tri/nao stage that was the time to actually look at an all new ship.

I have 3 major projects currently set to private that are nearly ready for public consumption including tri and nao variants of the Grifter so that you just have to select it and pay.

I've watched some videos which has increased my understand that weapons dont require specific blocks to be placed on. Is there a larger iron vessel you would recommend or a iron/titanium

ah i see.

The ship has slots but you have to actually buy or loot the weapons themselves.

Keep an eye open for mobile equipment traders or equipment docks in the system.

I'm very new to the game but I was also more asking is there built in weapon slots where I can slot in weapons

do you not loot/buy weapons anymore at all? forgive me i've not played the new update.

i might be missing something but where are the weapons?

It's extremely useful not just for early game but later on as well to be able to make resonabley sized ships and not have to have a station sized frieghter for efficient trade runs.

Therefore from a fellow Avorion player, you have my thanks both for your efforts in design and for discovering this genius mechanic as well as my thanks to derp for all his efforts. Sorry for the multiple post. Steam wouldn't let me put more then 1000 characters in a letter.

My first impression was wow when I see the low cost and small size. Even with the increased block count it was very good. Then I noticed how small it was with a huge cargo capacity and I'm like, wait a minute, I know he said it exceeds limitation but there is no way a ship that small can have that much cargo capacity. So here I am scratching my head wondering, "How the heck did you managed to get 730 cargo capacity on such a tiny ship using 1 large cargo box and 2 smaller ones?" I start to examine it piece by piece using the hide block feature and I quickly realized what you did. It wasen't 3 cargo holds but more like a couple hundred really tiny ones. I used the merge feature and the cargo space dropped to about 47. I then tested this to make sure you didn't cheat some how and was easily able to reproduce the results by duplicating the long super skinny cargo holds. I must call you a genius for discovering this.

Before this I was using the Pioneer Superlight Miner [2-slot] from the [LAC] Legion Aerospace Corporation. It's an extremely good ship for early game but I had one main complaint, no cargo storage. This same problem was true also of his other ships until naonite but even then the naonite ships were very expensive and bulky to build. They look amazing and are very good stat wise but they have high cost and block counts. A lot of ships on the workshop are either pure aesthetic and perform as well as a potato or they do well and look like a potato. It was a welcomed relief to finally find ships that had both and like the old saying goes you get what you pay for so it makes sense that they cost a lot and were bulky but it still bothered me that they did and I still wanted a trade ship before naonite so i've been searching for a good one. After a couple days of searching, I found this one.

There is no better way to make money then trade runs, except in early game where you can defend against pirate attacks but even then a dedicated trade ship is still more efficient for money made per hour especially once you get a good trade route set up and a good chip. Normally I would have to wait until at least naonite where I could get a decent ship for it due to the size needed for an effective trade ship with lots of cargo storage, and that was annoying since pirate attacks aren't frequent enough to be a good source of money and if they were it would get annoying fast with increased spawn rates so trading is the next option.

I have about 7 new ships currently set as private as they are still in testing via the new builds. I have a nan and trin variant of this ship aswell as 2 totally new hulls all with refurbs and variants so thank you for the kind words and stay tuned!

Really nice ship for starting, great job there !

i really like this little ship, i use it every time i start a new game. i look forward to your future ships.

Thank you left a message.

I don't wanna be chasing down everyone that does this. It is pretty sad they do and worse they give no credit but ultimately they are the ones who know their praise is undeserved.

Thank you for letting me know though Wolfgang.

I hope to be gtting back soon and working on Slot 2 and 3 refits very soon.

looks like kd5glx isnt giving you credit for your ship
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1110891587&searchtext=

добавлю очень хороший маневренный корабль самый подходящий на начальном этапе игры

хороший маневренный кораблик 5+

Love all your work.
And the Descriptions are always nice, including the cost / # of slots.
So many people don't put that in there...

i will fav it when it is released

oh i cant wait for the rework :)

Thank you!

My name is Obiwan though lol.

I do refurbs of some of Derps stuff. I am the engi/tech to his architect/designer so to speak.

This is my redux series but the Grifter is actually based off a ship that Derp never actually released.

Anyways this is why I give him mad props and link him all over the place because it was his work that inspired me and I have had huge fun taking and guttin out his hulls and completely refitting them.

My next project is a rework of the LAC "Pioneer"

i dig all your ship designs DurpSuper++ i added ya as a freind and im going to rate your ships :)